It's quite common these days for National Trust properties to have a second-hand bookstore on site. But the one at Speke Hall near Liverpool has hands down the best name.
This is not mine, it's from a colleague who posted it to our work Slack. But it's far too good to be left languishing there, so here's my (stolen, but I'm sure they'll understand) contribution to #Caturday.
I'm absolutely loving this spirit of malicious compliance that's creeping into the subreddits that have been forced to reopen.
/r/pics started it off by holding a vote where their users overwhelmingly said that the only pics they wanted were ones of John Oliver looking lovely.
Now /r/WellThatSucks is purely a place to post pictures of vacuum cleaners.
And /r/iPhone is only permitting posts that are pictures of Tim Cook.
All of these policy changes have been voted and agreed upon by the subreddits' users, so Reddit can't even complain that the mod teams are going against their users' wishes.
I do feel more than a little sympathy for @ernest.
In January he decided to try to build an ActivityPub based messageboard system.
A month ago he decided the code was stable enough that he could release the first alpha version, and stood up https://kbin.social to demonstrate it.
It attracted quite a few users per day and proved that it might just be an exciting new entry into the Fediverse.
And then Reddit's admins did their thing, and suddenly thousands, millions, tens of millions of users are looking for a new home. And although a few other brave souls have also created kbin instances in the last few days, there's simply not enough capacity to even begin to cope with all the demand.
I know that @grunfink's snac isn't trying to solve the same thing, but I can't help but wonder if its svelte source in ANSIC might handle a larger influx of usage better given it is doubtlessly a lot more memory and CPU efficient than the above?
Kolmogorov complexity reduction is, generally speaking: a win.
I know that @grunfink's snac isn't trying to solve the same thing, but I can't help but wonder if its svelte source in ANSIC might handle a larger influx of usage better given it is doubtlessly a lot more memory and CPU efficient than the above?
Does this thing really support ActivityPub? It doesn't even seem to respond to webfinger queries correctly (it returns a bunch of HTML and JS and gives a 403 status. Does it want webfinger queries to be HTTP signed?).
Gregory's Server
@losttourist that name conveys a great deal of information